Federal Prosecutors Obtain Extensive Data from Twitter on Trump's Account

Special counsel obtains access to data from Trump's Twitter account

Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained access to a significant amount of data from Twitter regarding former President Donald Trump's personal account, as per recently unsealed court records. The legal battle to gain access to the account took place earlier this year, before Twitter was rebranded as "X," and faced opposition from the platform's owner and then-CEO, Elon Musk.

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Judge suggests Musk tried to gain favor with Trump

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Details of the data obtained

The content provided includes information about accounts associated with former President Donald Trump's Twitter handle, @realdonaldtrump, that he might have used on the same device. It also mentions the devices used to log into the @realdonaldtrump account and the IP addresses used to access the account between October 2020 and January 2021. Additionally, it mentions details about the privacy settings and history of the account.

The content provided for a news site reader includes all tweets, including deleted ones, created, drafted, favorited/liked, or retweeted by @realdonaldtrump. It also includes all direct messages sent from, received by, stored in draft form in, or associated with @realdonaldtrump. Additionally, it includes records of searches conducted from October 2020 to January 2021.

Trump's claims of secret attack on his Twitter account

In October 2020 to January 2021, former President Donald Trump claimed that his Twitter account was secretly attacked by the Biden administration. He accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Joe Biden of obtaining a search warrant to search his account without informing him. Trump expressed his belief that this was an infringement on his civil rights and accused his political opponent of going "crazy" in trying to interfere with his campaign for president.